More than 100,000 Himalayan goats _ famed for their pashmina wool _ or cashmere _ face starvation after their desert habitat was blanketed with snow, while three people died during the region's worst storms in three decades, officials said Thursday.
The government was trying to get emergency supplies to the area as winter stocks of fodder ran out after rare snows covered pastures in the remote Ladakh region near the border with China, said Dr. Tsering Phuntsog, chief animal husbandry officer in the region.
"There is a strong possibility that many goats might perish if supplies don't reach them immediately," he said.
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